Publication Date:
2001-02-24
Description:
Although auxin is known to regulate many processes in plant development and has been studied for over a century, the mechanisms whereby plants produce it have remained elusive. Here we report the characterization of a dominant Arabidopsis mutant, yucca, which contains elevated levels of free auxin. YUCCA encodes a flavin monooxygenase-like enzyme and belongs to a family that includes at least nine other homologous Arabidopsis genes, a subset of which appears to have redundant functions. Results from tryptophan analog feeding experiments and biochemical assays indicate that YUCCA catalyzes hydroxylation of the amino group of tryptamine, a rate-limiting step in tryptophan-dependent auxin biosynthesis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhao, Y -- Christensen, S K -- Fankhauser, C -- Cashman, J R -- Cohen, J D -- Weigel, D -- Chory, J -- 2R01GM52413/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM36426/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Jan 12;291(5502):306-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11209081" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alleles
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Amino Acid Sequence
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Arabidopsis/anatomy & histology/*genetics/growth & development/*metabolism
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*Arabidopsis Proteins
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Catalysis
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Cloning, Molecular
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Genes, Plant
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Indoleacetic Acids/*biosynthesis/*metabolism
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Oxygenases/chemistry/*metabolism
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Phenotype
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Plant Roots/growth & development
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Plants, Toxic
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Tobacco/metabolism
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Tryptamines/metabolism
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Tryptophan/*analogs & derivatives/metabolism/pharmacology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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